Latest On Valve

Dota 2’s The International Tournament Returns In October, And It Has A Bigger Home

Dota 2’s The International Tournament Returns In October, And It Has A Bigger Home

Valve is moving it to a bigger venue.

By QuintLyn Bowers - 3 weeks ago
Dota 2 Gets A “Huge” Update In "New Frontiers" That Even Expands The Game's Map

Dota 2 Gets A “Huge” Update In "New Frontiers" That Even Expands The Game's Map

The update expands the map by 40% and even introduces a new hero attribute type.

By QuintLyn Bowers - 1 month ago
Players Spent Over $100 Million On CS:GO Cases Last Month, A New Record

Players Spent Over $100 Million On CS:GO Cases Last Month, A New Record

About 39.5 million loot boxes were opened throughout March 2023, right after Valve announced Counter-Strike 2.

By Matthew D'Onofrio - 1 month ago
CS:GO Breaks All-Time Peak Player Records By A Mile Ahead Of Counter-Strike 2 Beta Launch

CS:GO Breaks All-Time Peak Player Records By A Mile Ahead Of Counter-Strike 2 Beta Launch

According to Steam, 1,519,457 players were online at the same time — 200,000 more than the previous milestone.

By Matthew D'Onofrio - 2 months ago
Counter-Strike 2 Seemingly Confirmed Real, Beta Coming Soon

Counter-Strike 2 Seemingly Confirmed Real, Beta Coming Soon

According to anonymous sources, the sequel to Counter-Strike is "about ready to go."

By Matthew D'Onofrio - 2 months ago
Dota 2 "Honeypots" Over 40,000 Cheating Accounts And Follows Up With Bans

Dota 2 "Honeypots" Over 40,000 Cheating Accounts And Follows Up With Bans

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

By Aspen Pash - 3 months ago
UPDATED: Team Fortress 2 Takes Advantage Of New "Blog Post" Technology To Announce New Content Coming This Year

UPDATED: Team Fortress 2 Takes Advantage Of New "Blog Post" Technology To Announce New Content Coming This Year

It's been about 5 years since the last update featuring new content.

By Michael Byrne - 3 months ago
Speculation Abounds As Steam DB Notices Valve's Addition Of A "Valve Event Upload" Config App

Speculation Abounds As Steam DB Notices Valve's Addition Of A "Valve Event Upload" Config App

Config app uploads can only be created by Valve, fueling speculation on an upcoming announcement.

By Michael Byrne - 4 months ago
Microsoft Offers Sony's Proposed 10-Year Call Of Duty Deal To Nintendo And Steam: Nintendo Accepts, Valve Says "Not Necessary"

Microsoft Offers Sony's Proposed 10-Year Call Of Duty Deal To Nintendo And Steam: Nintendo Accepts, Valve Says "Not Necessary"

Microsoft takes the opportunity to jab Sony saying it's more interested in fighting than an actual deal.

By Michael Byrne - 5 months ago
DOTA 2 Has A New Hero, Muerta, Arriving In Early 2023

DOTA 2 Has A New Hero, Muerta, Arriving In Early 2023

“Pierce the veil between the living and the damned”

By Aspen Pash - 7 months ago
Team Fortress 2 Receives Another “Exploits And Stability” Update

Team Fortress 2 Receives Another “Exploits And Stability” Update

Can TF2 really be saved?

By Aspen Pash - 10 months ago
Valve Launches Update To Fix Issues Highlighted By The “Save TF2” Campaign

Valve Launches Update To Fix Issues Highlighted By The “Save TF2” Campaign

The update takes aim at bots of all kinds.

By QuintLyn Bowers - 11 months ago
Bethesda Launcher To Shut Down In May; Games Will Transfer To Steam

Bethesda Launcher To Shut Down In May; Games Will Transfer To Steam

Detailed instructions on how to transfer save files will arrive in April.

By Jason Winter - 1 year ago
Steam Is Unavailable In China, But It's Probably Not The Government's Fault

Steam Is Unavailable In China, But It's Probably Not The Government's Fault

International Steam client was reportedly targeted by a "DNS cache poisoning attack."

By Jason Winter - 1 year ago
Top 5 Free to Play Weekly - New World Banning Problems & Titanfall 2's Ash In Apex Legends Ep 485

Top 5 Free to Play Weekly - New World Banning Problems & Titanfall 2's Ash In Apex Legends Ep 485

Titanfall 2 fans get some love in Apex Legends, too!

By Marlowe Ethos - 1 year ago
Valve Boots Blockchain/Cryptocurrency/NFT Titles Off Steam(UPDATE: But Epic Games Will Take Them!)

Valve Boots Blockchain/Cryptocurrency/NFT Titles Off Steam(UPDATE: But Epic Games Will Take Them!)

No F***ing Thanks or Newell Flags Transactions?

By Jason Winter - 1 year ago
Valve Halts Ticket Sales To Next Week's Dota 2 International, Will Offer Refunds

Valve Halts Ticket Sales To Next Week's Dota 2 International, Will Offer Refunds

Went on sale September 22.

By Jason Winter - 1 year ago
Modders Are Giving Team Fortress 2 A Facelift With The Engine Used For Half-Life: Alyx

Modders Are Giving Team Fortress 2 A Facelift With The Engine Used For Half-Life: Alyx

Team Fortress 2 has been around for about 14 years now, and while it's really not suffering visually like a lot of games that age do, thanks to the art style, it could probably use a little sprucing up.

By QuintLyn Bowers - 1 year ago
Valve Announces Location And Dates For $40+ Million Dota 2 International

Valve Announces Location And Dates For $40+ Million Dota 2 International

Valve has been preparing for the return of the Dota 2 International for a while now, even announcing new ways for fans to support the event back in May.

By QuintLyn Bowers - 1 year ago
CS: GO Is Losing Players, But That's Probably Intentional

CS: GO Is Losing Players, But That's Probably Intentional

Let's start this off by saying one thing: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is still huge.

By Jason Winter - 1 year ago
Team Fortress 2 Issues Patch And Sets A New High For Concurrent Players

Team Fortress 2 Issues Patch And Sets A New High For Concurrent Players

Team Fortress 2, which launched in 2009, has just hit its all time peak concurrent player count.

By Jason Winter - 1 year ago
CS:GO Free Accounts No Longer Have Access To Ranked Matches

CS:GO Free Accounts No Longer Have Access To Ranked Matches

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has become a little less free-to-play.

By Jason Winter - 1 year ago
As The Dota 2 International Returns. Valve Introduces A New Way For Fans To Support Teams

As The Dota 2 International Returns. Valve Introduces A New Way For Fans To Support Teams

Because time has no meaning now, it's probably easy to forget that we've gone a longer period of time without things like in-person video game tournaments.

By QuintLyn Bowers - 2 years ago
Valve's Dota 2 Documentary, "Free To Play," Now Available On Netflix

Valve's Dota 2 Documentary, "Free To Play," Now Available On Netflix

Seven years ago, Valve released Free to Play, a documentary about the trials and triumphs of three professional Dota 2 players as they ramped up for the 2011 International tournament.

By Jason Winter - 2 years ago
Team Fortress 2 Bots Are Now Into Extortion And Worse

Team Fortress 2 Bots Are Now Into Extortion And Worse

Team Fortress 2 is practically abandonware at this point, so about the only time we hear about it is when something bad is happening.

By Jason Winter - 2 years ago
Epic Loses Hundreds Of Millions Per Year On EGS, But That's Likely Part Of The Plan

Epic Loses Hundreds Of Millions Per Year On EGS, But That's Likely Part Of The Plan

Epic, and the Epic Games Store, is going roughly half a billion dollars in the hole to compete with Steam.

By Jason Winter - 2 years ago
Valve Announces New Features To Help Newbie Dota 2 Players

Valve Announces New Features To Help Newbie Dota 2 Players

So, it looks like the Dota 2 community aren't the only ones thinking the new Netflix anime series will be bringing in new players.

By QuintLyn Bowers - 2 years ago
Eight-episode Anime DOTA: Dragon's Blood Now Streaming On Netflix

Eight-episode Anime DOTA: Dragon's Blood Now Streaming On Netflix

The DotA anime series that we were told would be showing up on Netflix in March has -- surprise!...

By Jason Winter - 2 years ago
Loading...